Luigi Mangione 'does not support violent actions,' attorney says as political attacks mount across the US

Luigi Mangione's ineligible squad is urging an extremity to governmental unit successful the U.S. and distancing the accused assassin from the suspects successful a bid of akin but unrelated crimes.

"As we person stated earlier successful aggregate nationalist tribunal filings, Mr. Mangione does not support convulsive actions and does not condone past oregon aboriginal governmental violence," his attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told Fox News Digital. "These repeated attempts to link him to unrelated acts oregon to insinuate that helium condones oregon supports these acts are irresponsible, unsafe and prejudicial."

Her comments came successful effect to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital successful the aftermath of the latest attack, implicit the play astatine the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner successful Washington, D.C.

A 31-year-old California teacher named Cole Allen was arrested aft allegedly shooting a U.S. Secret Service cause successful the thorax successful a failed effort to get into the event, attended by President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, the archetypal lady, furniture members and salient media figures.

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Luigi Mangione appears successful State Supreme Court successful Manhattan connected Dec. 12, 2025, during an grounds suppression proceeding successful the execution lawsuit of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg)

Federal prosecutors person accused Allen of attempting to assassinate the president and filed national firearms charges, alleging helium wrote a "manifesto" sent to relatives and his erstwhile employer.

"Cole Allen traveled crossed the state with deadly weapons and a program to assassinate the President of the United States," said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for the District of Columbia. "The swift and courageous effect of the Secret Service officers prevented unimaginable tragedy. There is nary country successful this metropolis for governmental violence."

Earlier this month, a Texas antheral named Daniel Moreno-Gama was accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail astatine OpenAI laminitis Sam Altman's California home. The 20-year-old fishy allegedly referenced "Luigi'ing immoderate tech CEOs," The Wall Street Journal reported previously.

A photograph of Cole Allen successful a graduation gown and headdress from 2025. (Cole Allen/LinkedIn)

The lawsuit prompted San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to pass that "incendiary rhetoric" could person motivated the crime.

Another arson onslaught suspect, Chamel Abdulkarim, allegedly invoked Mangione connected video portion prosecutors allege helium acceptable a warehouse connected occurrence successful Ontario, Calif..

"Luigi popped that motherf---er," helium said, according to a national transgression complaint, adding "a batch of radical are going to understand."

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Prosecutors person alleged that the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, led to a wide societal interaction and whitethorn person inspired others to unit — by design.

In an Aug. 27, 2025, filing successful national court, they argued that "the discourse and execution of [Thompson's] execution powerfully suggest that the suspect intended to power oregon provoke broader reactions beyond the contiguous killing."

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"Simply put, the suspect hoped to normalize the usage of unit to execute ideological oregon governmental objectives," prosecutors wrote.

Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, is shown successful an undated representation provided by UnitedHealth. He was changeable and killed connected his mode to an capitalist league successful New York City successful what prosecutors described arsenic a politically motivated assassination. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP)

Mangione, who is accused of stalking Thompson from Minnesota to New York earlier shooting him successful the back, allegedly wrote messages connected ammunition casings utilized successful Thompson's shooting, a item prosecutors alleged successful the Aug. 27 filing was specifically intended to promote media coverage. He besides allegedly wrote journals describing the motivations down the attack.

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In September 2025, Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated during a speaking lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University successful Orem, Utah. Authorities person charged a 22-year-old named Tyler Robinson, who allegedly engraved messages into ammunition casings.

Tyler Robinson appears during a proceeding successful Fourth District Court successful Provo, Utah, connected Dec. 11, 2025. He is accused of the execution of Charlie Kirk. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune)

That aforesaid month, a gunman opened occurrence connected U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents successful Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn, 29, killed a detainee, injured 2 others and fatally changeable himself. Pictures amusement authorities recovered rounds from the scene, astatine slightest 1 inscribed with the phrase, "ANTI-ICE."

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Robin Westman, a 23-year-old accused of shooting children done the windows of a Minneapolis Catholic religion successful August 2025, besides posted videos online showing weapons and magazines covered successful anti-Trump and anti-Christian messages.

Mangione's lawyers person argued that Thompson's decease was not an enactment of "political violence" to statesman with, penning that helium was not a nationalist servant, not a politician, and not engaged successful politics.

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Screenshots from a YouTube video posted by Robin M. Westman, 23, amusement the fishy constabulary identified arsenic the gunman successful the Aug. 27, 2025, Minneapolis religion schoolhouse shooting. (Robin M. Westman for Fox News Digital)

"The Government has indelibly prejudiced Mr. Mangione by baselessly linking him to unrelated convulsive events, and left-wing extremist groups, contempt determination being nary transportation oregon affiliation," his lawyers wrote successful a Sept. 23 missive to the justice overseeing his national case, Margaret Garnett.

They were responding to comments from apical White House officials describing Mangione arsenic "left wing" arsenic portion of a bid to person the imaginable decease punishment taken disconnected the array earlier trial.

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"A recent, tragic, high-profile execution has lone accrued this prejudicial rhetoric. The attempts to link Mr. Mangione with these incidents and overgarment him arsenic a 'left-wing' convulsive extremist are false, prejudicial, and portion of a greater governmental communicative that has nary spot successful immoderate transgression case, particularly 1 wherever the decease punishment is astatine stake."

His lawyers subsequently won a ruling that removed the accidental of superior punishment.

Fox News' Stepheny Price and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.